On the Anniversary of the Birth of Pablo Picasso, Museo Picasso Málaga Presents New Acquisitions

MALAGA.- MPM’s permanent collection provides visitors with an overview of eight decades of Pablo Picasso’s work, conveying the painstaking creative capacity of an artist who is essential to understanding Western art history, and thereby embodying the desire to offer the city of Picasso’s birth some of the fruits of his talent. The rooms in the Palacio de Buenavista have been organized in such a way as to examine by theme issues that are important aspects of Pablo Picasso’s artistic legacy, [...]

Oklahoma City Museum of Art Acquires Two Works by Renowned American Artist Anne Truitt

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK.- The Oklahoma City Museum of Art has acquired two major works of art by American artist Anne Truitt (1921–2004). The Sea, The Sea (2003) and Memory (1981) were purchased with funds from the Kirkpatrick Family Fund and the Kirkpatrick Foundation in honor of the philanthropic work of the Joan Kirkpatrick, who died in 2009. The pieces will be on view in the Museum’s third floor galleries beginning October 20. Joan Kirkpatrick’s life was centered in Oklahoma City [...]

Bonhams to Sell Paintings by Coronation Artist of Ford Cars Made in Dagenham

LONDON.- Two oil on canvas paintings by the official artist of the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Terence Cuneo (1907-1996), commissioned by the Ford Motor Company in 1947, are to be sold at Bonhams’ sale of Important Motor Cars and Fine Automobilia on 6 December. This year the annual end of year sale will take place at a new venue – Mercedes-Benz World at Brooklands in Surrey.  The paintings are part of a series of six, which were commissioned to depict Ford’s car, [...]

Fifty Paintings and Drawings by Antoni Tapies on View at the Palau Fabre Foundation

BARCELONA.- Fifty Antoni Tàpies’ paintings and drawings are being exhibited at the Palau Fabre Foundation (Fundación Palau Fabre) from today on in the “Gaze at the Hand” (“Mira la mano…”) exhibition, which shows the vitality of the last ten years of this artist, who has already reached 87 and with which the Foundation opens a new stage.  Arriving simultaneously with the vernissage of the new permanent exhibition, the Foundation has done a redistribution of the spaces assigned to temporary exhibitions, which starts with [...]

Blondes and Brunettes in Film Examined in Exhibition at Cinémathèque Française

PARIS.- Punctuated by many screening of film excerpts, Brune/Blonde focuses on film and its mythical actresses: blondes and brunettes, not to mention redheads, short and long hair, veiled or sensual. It looks at the film industry and its filmmakers seeking a form in which the body reveals itself. And it looks at films and the representation of hair, inextricably linked to desire and the intoxication of love. Emblematic of this is Kim Novak’s spiral bun in Hitchcock’s Vertigo, revisited 30 years [...]

Site-Specific Public Art Installation By Pioneering New Media Artist Jim Campbell

NEW YORK, NY.- Madison Square Park Conservancy presents Scattered Light, a new site-specific public art installation by pioneering new media artist Jim Campbell. Marking the artist’s most ambitious public art project to date, Scattered Light features three installations of orchestrated light incorporating elements of computer programming and high-technology for a public art installation which literally lights up Madison Square Park this fall and winter. Jim Campbell’s Scattered Light will remain on view through February 28, 2011, as part of the Conservancy’s [...]

Christie’s Sale in Dubai Features Works from Around the Middle East & Turkey

DUBAI.- Christie’s October 26th, 2010 Dubai sale of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art is blessed with a further selection of works from the renowned Farsi Collection, one of the most comprehensive groups of modern Egyptian art in private hands and a diverse range of 20 works from modern and contemporary Turkish artists.  Michael Jeha, Managing Director of Christie’s Dubai, said: “We are delighted to have been entrusted with the great private collection of Egyptian art which has in turn attracted a [...]

Old Master Drawings: Guercino, Rubens, Tintoretto at the Lady Lever Gallery

LIVERPOOL.- A new exhibition explores why artists have drawn over the centuries – from copying other works to making life studies – and the role of sketching in the creation of artworks.  Old Master Drawings: Guercino, Rubens, Tintoretto 22 October 2010 to 2 May 2011 features 29 drawings from the Old Master collections of the Lady Lever and Walker Art Galleries.  Works by some of the great Italian Renaissance and Northern European artists between 1500 and 1800 are used to examine the reasons [...]

Sundaram Tagore’s Film “The Poetics of Color: Natvar Bhavsar” to Have World Premiere at Film Festival

NEW YORK, NY.- The Poetics of Color: Natvar Bhavsar, a documentary by gallerist and art historian Sundaram Tagore, will premiere at the prestigious Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council film festival, the same festival that launched Mira Nair’s The Namesake, Deepa Mehta’s Water, and Slumdog Millionaire, Thursday, November 11, 2010, at 9pm at the SVA Theater, 333 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011. The Poetics of Color: Natvar Bhavsar is the first and only documentary to trace the roots of Asian [...]

Drawing Installation, “Nature of the Pencil”, by Marco Breuer at Von Lintel Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Von Lintel Gallery presents Nature of the Pencil, a drawing installation by Marco Breuer, his fifth solo exhibition at Von Lintel Gallery. Throughout his nearly twenty-year career, Breuer has approached his work as a systematic investigation of the conditions of the photographic medium and its relationship to related media. For Nature of the Pencil—a play on William Henry Fox Talbot’s seminal book The Pencil of Nature—Breuer examines and explores the intersection of photography and drawing. Marco Breuer, Untitled [...]

IVAM Commemorates the Centenary of the Birth of Architect Felix Candela with an Exhibition of His Work

VALENCIA.- The exhibition that the IVAM and the Sociedad Estatal Conmemoraciones Culturales (SECC) dedicate to Félix Candela’s work exemplifies the assimilation process involved in the dramatic experience of exile and his integration in the complex processes of modernisation and urban development in Latin American countries. His professional experience and his work in both public and private spaces show concordance and a series of achievements that mark one of the privileged moments of the imaginary associated with exile in Latin American architecture. [...]

Recent Work by Alan Magee at Forum Gallery’s First Exhibition in Its New Location

NEW YORK, NY.- Recent work by Alan Magee, known as one of the most accomplished and imaginative figurative painters working today, is on view at Forum Gallery from October 22 to November 20, 2010. Alan Magee: In Sight will mark Forum Gallery’s first exhibition in its new location in the historic Crown Building, 730 Fifth Avenue at 57th Street, New York City, where The Museum of Modern Art opened its first gallery in 1929. In the artist’s tenth anniversary year at [...]

Retrospective of the Work by Filmmaker and Artist Harun Farocki Opens in Austria

BREGENZ.- With Harun Farocki, the Kunsthaus Bregenz presents a filmmaker and artist whose work has had a strong influence on the history of the political film since the late 1960s. His great importance to the visual arts is reflected not only in the retrospectives of his films at institutions like Tate Modern in London but also in solo exhibitions at the MUMOK Wien, the Jeu de Paume in Paris, and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. At the very least, Farocki’s [...]

Reacquisition of “The Sower” by Constantin Meunier for the National Gallery

BERLIN.- An important bronze sculpture in the history of European modern art has been successfully reacquired on behalf of the National Museum’s National Gallery, thanks to support from the Kulturstiftung der Länder (a nationwide cultural foundation) and the Hermann Reemtsma Foundation. The Museum Island’s colonnade courtyard, officially opened in June 2010, now boasts another impressive sculpture – Constantin Meunier’s ‘The Sower’ from 1896. Many Berliners will already be familiar with the figure, as for a long while it stood beneath [...]

Solo Exhibition of Dynamic New Work by Nobu Fukui at Stephen Haller Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Stephen Haller Gallery presents a solo exhibition of dynamic new work by Nobu Fukui – canvases vibrant with invention. The exhibition is accompanied by a full color catalogue with essay by Carter Ratcliff. Fukui’s work reads as non-objective painting at a distance, yet on closer observation beguiles with surprising imagery that suggests narrative. The eye plays across the surface of his work as if watching a video game in giddy visual delight. Oil paint, acrylics, three-dimensional beads, [...]